Santa's Coming To Town....Again?

Christmas is coming. Everyone is talking about it. You can see decorations on the streets especially on orchard road. You can see people rushing to buy their last minute gifts, sending out their last minute greeting cards. You can hear it on the radio as they broadcast those unbearable Christmas jingles. You can see Salvation Army personnel with their big red money pots asking for donations by just standing there shaking their tiny little bells. You can see catalogs for every imaginable kind of log cakes in the bakery. You can see it in the papers where every retail and product organization including car dealers with their big right-in-your-face bold letters: “CHRISTMAS SALE!” You can sense the lovey dovey feeling in the air. You can smell the fresh baked cookies from the oven. You can taste the richness of the season coming.

And frankly.....I HATE IT!!

I used to LOVE Christmas when I was just a young reckless prick. Wished everyday could be Christmas then. As the years pass and my prick mature and grow in both length and girth, I no longer share the enthusiasm of the season. Perhaps it is due to the increasing responsibility we need to take and the burden of stress from all areas of life. This year itself, Christmas somewhat just creeps up on me. I only realized Christmas is on Sunday this week four days ago!! Talk about losing track of time. Due to increasing workload, I do not even feel the difference between weekdays and weekends anymore. Weekends are now officially used for running errands and for settling unresolved matters instead of resting. Guess I just lost my Christmas mojo.

So spare me your Ho Ho Hos and Yo Yo Yos this year. Not that I am grumpy like Scrooge McDuck but I getting too old for all this celebrative shit.

Furthermore, the pre-celebration of any holidays now is getting so overrated and commercial that I wonder if anyone actually remembers the true meaning of Christmas itself??!! Yes (Yawn).....IT IS the birth of Jesus Christ. What I am typing about is whether anyone remembers the SPIRIT of Christmas?

It is the season of giving isn't it? Not presents in case you people misunderstood. The giving to the less fortunate. How many of us lavish on ourselves and on others instead of giving to the needy and desperate? Shouldn't we be spreading the joy so everyone can have a merry Christmas? Well.....we still has a long way to go before there is equality in the world. This by the way is NEVER going to happen!

Not that I assume I have done my part by donating some money here and there but hearing about what I can only perceived as narcissists everywhere on the streets bragging about what they got for themselves and from others, how expensive and 'classy' it is and where they will be going to spend their Christmas simply K.O my mood down for the count.

I will be spending quality time with my Queen lazing around enjoying each other company. Guess that is my idea of a merry Christmas from now on. Nothing fancy. Just the two of us and the possibility of the unknown future ahead.